Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), an English-edu-cated Indian intellectual who spent the last half of his life in the United States. "The Coomaraswamian museum would showcase objects not as exemplars of eternal aesthetic values but as manifestations of a particular civi- lization's particular philosophical worldview or religious sensibility. It would, in short, resem- ble a museum of anthropology or comparative religion." Truth, not sensation, is the proper goal of art, after all, and...
Katherine BOO, in The Washington The News, Monthly (Nov. 1992), 1611 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, With Feeling D.C. 20009, and "MO Knows" Leslie Kaufrnan, in Washing-
ton Journalism Review (Oct. 1992), 4716 Pontiac St., Ste. 310, College Park. Md. 20740-2493.
Washington correspondent Maureen Dowd is a talented and amusing wordsmith. During the Democratic primaries last year, Senator Robert Kerrey (D.-Neb.) emerged from her word pro- cessor with "large blue eyes and a light-bulb s...
Katherine BOO, in The Washington The News, Monthly (Nov. 1992), 1611 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, With Feeling D.C. 20009, and "MO Knows" Leslie Kaufrnan, in Washing-
ton Journalism Review (Oct. 1992), 4716 Pontiac St., Ste. 310, College Park. Md. 20740-2493.
Washington correspondent Maureen Dowd is a talented and amusing wordsmith. During the Democratic primaries last year, Senator Robert Kerrey (D.-Neb.) emerged from her word pro- cessor with "large blue eyes and a light-bulb s...
two rival corporations, are a mixed lot. That very diversity, Clausen argues, suggests that the stereotype of the tabloid reader-"a gullible, semiliterate gum-chewer of lower-class origins and pathological tastesn-is just "a figment of the educated imagination, en- couraged the mainstream press to empha- size its superiority." If tabloid readers were that dumb, they would not be reading at all.
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RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
What do the 3.8 million mostly female read- ers of the Nat...
1650 and Puritan govern- ments were highly democratic. "As the doc- trine of popular sovereignty gradually spread to most of the English colonies, it shaped Ameri- can mores, embedding the 'spirit of liberty' deep within the American character."
the 1830s, Tocqueville observed, that spirit of freedom had overcome the "spirit of religion" within Christianity itself. Orthodoxy became far less important, zealotry gave way to toleration, and the miraculous and other- worldly aspects...
Jared Diamond, in Discover (Oct.One-Way Plagues 1992), 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, Calif. 91521.
Less than 200 years after Christopher Colum- rise of agriculture and then of cities, in both the bus set foot in the New World, the native Amer- Old World and the New, provided the "crowd ican population of some 20 million had de- diseases" with a welcome mat. The rise of farm- clined perhaps 95 percent. The main killers ing and cities also put humans in close contact were not swords...
Jared Diamond, in Discover (Oct.One-Way Plagues 1992), 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, Calif. 91521.
Less than 200 years after Christopher Colum- rise of agriculture and then of cities, in both the bus set foot in the New World, the native Amer- Old World and the New, provided the "crowd ican population of some 20 million had de- diseases" with a welcome mat. The rise of farm- clined perhaps 95 percent. The main killers ing and cities also put humans in close contact were not swords...
Anke A.
Ehrhardt of Columbia and June M. Reinisch of the Kinsey Institute, Kimura says, have found that these girls "grow up to be more tomboyish and aggressive than their unaffected sisters." Sheri A. Berenbaum of the University of Chi- cago and Melissa Hines of UCJA found that when such girls are given a choice of toys, they opt for cars and trucks, "the more typically masculine toys.'
Kimura believes that the apparent sex differ- ences "arose because they proved evolution-...
Carol Troyen, in The American Art Journal (Vol.Regained XXIII, No. 1, 1991), 40 W. 57th St., 5th fl., New York, N.Y. 10019.
In 1851, the New York-based American Art- Union held one of its most influential exhi- bitions. Three of the show's paintings were so powerful and accomplished that they became much-imitated models of a pastoral form of landscape painting, according to Troyen, an as- sociate curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In a nation beset growing sectional and economic tensions,...
Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900) and New England Scen- ery Frederic E. Church (1826-1900)-were composite images, but were very much like Kensett's in scale, composition, and theme. The three scenes, Troyen says, had a "Jefferso- nian harmony and idyllic quality," and offered "the sense of America as the new Eden." It was a reassuring vision then, for outside the Art- Union's walls, Troyen writes, "the nation was in turmoil, scarcely recovered from the crises precipitating....